STEM Lending Library
The Oakley STEM Center is home to a valuable resource for your classroom, community organization, or family engagement events. The Lending Library is a collection of instructional equipment the STEM Center has been building up over the past several years.
There are thousands of items ranging from hand-held data acquisition units with sensors and probes, to math manipulatives, to LEGO Mindstorms.
To gain access to the Lending Library is simple, attend one of the FREE Lending Library Training Sessions.
The Oakley STEM Center is curating the largest catalog of classroom STEM equipment in the Upper Cumberland, and it is all available to our Lending Library Members. Formal educators, informal educators, and parents may all join the Lending Library.
After you finish Lending Library Training, you will have access to thousands of classroom instructional aids for a two-week lending period, or an extended period upon request.
If you have already completed your training, you may access the Lending Library website by clicking the button below:
You can also, help support the Lending Library by clicking the button below:
- Lending Library Access
Join the Millard Oakley STEM Center to enrich your students鈥� lives with STEM instructional resources.
Access to the Lending Library is simple. Join us for a short training session educators will have access the Upper Cumberland's largest library of instructional resources.
Trainings will be offered the last Tuesday of every month from 4:30pm-5:30pm in the Fall and Spring Semesters. We also offer an online training option if you can't make it.
The STEM Center is focused on building the community of STEM-education teachers in the Upper Cumberland.
When you gain access to the Lending Library, you not only have access to great tools to use in the classroom, you are entering a collaborative community of educators sharing their experiences and lessons with the equipment we offer.
If you already completed your training you may access the Lending Library website below.
- Training & Membership
Trainings will be offered the last Tuesday of every month from 4:30pm-5:30pm starting in the Fall 2020.
Upcoming training session dates are TBD
- Online Lending Library Training
If you prefer to complete the Lending Library Training online, please complete the steps outlined below.
1) Email Carlos Galindo at cgalindo@tntech.edu stating that you would like to complete a virtual Lending Library training.
2) Watch the
3) Complete this brief online .
Once these steps are done, we will create your Lending Library account and you will be able to start checking out items.
